While most employees may not be so fed up with their jobs that they would curse out a customer and jump out of a moving plane like the JetBlue flight attendant we’ve heard so much about, it’s becoming clear that…

The most recent employment statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics offers little good or bad news. The unemployment rate in July remained unchanged at 9.5 percent, and the private sector gained 71,000 jobs. Again, manufacturing and healthcare are…

If you’ve been reading my posts at all, you know that blogging is a great way to keep the search engines coming back to your site regularly because search engines love fresh content.  But, you should also know that blogging…

A recent post on our sister company Top Echelon Network’s Recruiter Training Blog discusses hiring managers’ reluctance to hire anyone but the “perfect candidate.” In the quest for this mythical “perfect candidate,” some companies are throwing down new, stringent mandates,…

According to a recent Newsweek article titled “The Big Hiring Freeze”, profits at some of the country’s biggest companies, such as IBM, are up. Industrial Companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index are sitting on $838 billion. So where…

The National Association of Personnel Services (NAPS) will hold its Annual Conference from September 29-October 2 at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch St. Louis, MO. Top Echelon Contracting President Debbie Fledderjohann will be a speaker, and Top…